Transactions of the Hom Opathic Medical Society of the State of New York Volume 26 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... Hospital beyond reach of the animosity of Dr. MacDonald, chairman of the Commission in Lunacy, who has demonstrated his desire to throttle it. The Committee On Midwives, through Dr. Brayton, reported that nothing had been done, owing to the legislative deadlock, but that the matter is to be taken up during the coming winter. The President called for reports on Countt Organizations. J. W. Candee: --A few years ago the potency question disrupted our county society. For the last four years, however, we have been on a peace footing and meetings are now held monthly, all working harmoniously; the membership is about 35. The meeting of the state society in Syracuse three years since, had a good effect upon the county society. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATION OF DRUG EFFECTS. According to the law of evolution, the study of materia medica is becoming more and more specialized; in "the continuous re-adjustment of relations to environment" "the homogeneous unity" of materia medica is becoming broken up into a "heterogeneous unity," in which the study of special forms of the grand whole is accomplishing much more than could be expected when effort was spread over the entire field of investigation. As this specialization proceeds, it will doubtless evolve more and more specialized departments. Repertory-making was a specialized department from the very first, even in Hahnemann's time. At present several other departments have begun to show "the lines of segmentation." The study of "drug effects," pure and simple is one such incipient division. The questions in this department are numerous and of surpassing interest Some of them are: (a) How much variation of results shall be allowed to the personal equation of the provcr? (b) How much variation shall be allowed...